Fall 2011

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Fall After School Workshop - in own county in September

Fall Inservice day:
ENGAGE:
What are your inherited traits?

EXPLORE:
Story of the “baby daddy”
  • Set up electrophoresis to fun
  • Lab directions
  • Chart for results

Quick review of use of micropipette
Review DNA and genes

EXPLAIN:
Look at what happened during electrophoresis lab (diagnose the gels), discussion, photos



ENGAGE:
Introduce mitosis

EXPLORATION/EXPLAIN:
Slides of plant cells
Drawing what they see

EXTENSION:
Use copies of mitosis phases to glue into their journal


ENGAGE:
Post picture of Amy’s children….Why don’t they look alike?

EXPLORE:
Miosis
  • 23 pairs of chromosomes
  • Genetic diversity
  • Manipulate paper (activity)

EXPLANATION:
  • 8 million different combinations
  • Reproduction – Advantage of reproduction is the variation of gene sharing


ENGAGE:**
  • What three things come to mind when we saw the words “fruit fly”

EXPLORE:
  • Patterns of inheritance
  • In computer lab: Fruit fly simulation (from HSA bridge project)

EXPLAIN:
  • Follow up with Punnet Squares, phenotype, genotype
  • Pedigree Notes

EXTEND:
  • Debrief Fast Plants:
  • Using what they learned with the flies, they will debrief at their table to create (phenotype, genotype, dominant/recessive, and Punnet Squares)

EXTEND:
  • Non Mendalian patterns: Sex links, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, polyfactorial